Feel free to spend several billion on a 100m sp + titan pilot and find out just how wrong you are. You are still going to suck just as bad as you do at the moment.

What matters in PVP is knowledge.

Unless you mean T1 logi who's so laughable that nobody shoots him, no.

You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.

Absolutely spot-on, IMHO.

Which means that in an odd way the OP is right - people who have been playing longer do have an advantage, of sorts. But he's wrong that it's in terms of SP. It's in terms of knowledge built up over years of playing, making mistakes, trying again - getting info from people you play with, experimenting, etc.

That cannot be had by a newbie. SP per "flying something well" is hard capped. A newbie can easily reach that cap for small ships. The newbie will never have the knowledge and experience - that's what corporations are for, so the knowledge and experience can be shared and learned.

But that's just how it should be in an MMO.

No pvp sp against some pvp sp. Not an exception to "more SP wins" formula.

It saddens me that I wasted so much time on a game which pretends to be a PvP game, while having no PvP side whatsoever.

Eve "PvP" formula is simple as wood - more SP wins. You have an account created later than 2007-2008? Automatic defeat at every attempt of pvping.

So, my question is, when eve is getting PvP which depends on something other than pure blob of bigger SP?

So why are SP's so important to people then?

It is only real PvP when you win

So it wouldn't hurt to rebalance the skill trees and reduce all benefits from every skill by 50%. I think thats a great idea. To be honest I would remove all skills that increased combat ability so that people were fighting on a more even field. It would make Eve a lot more exciting if it was an even competition skill wise.

It's only real PvP when each party has a chance.

Numbers = more SP = win. Not an exception.
And I were not the gankee, I were the ganker.
It's just eve has no PvP beyond SPvsSP formula is too annoying.

Also, when I get that age, everyone would still get their SP, and my relative age would be still as low as it is now. Eve "PvP" is locked out forever for newer accounts.

It's important to some people, most likely because they are in that frame of mind where they're always chasing the next big thing, and/or where the main draw for them is character progression. Both are often tied to SP.

So reducing the effect of skill increase by 50% would be a good way to mitigate any power creep which has occurred. Players still have the same SP and can use the same gear.

The OP was saying that he had been "out skilled" in combat. I was just thinking that if the advantages of skiling up were reduced a bit then he wouldn't be so outgunned. For instance say every level of gunnery gives 5% increase in damage, if that was reduced to 2.5% then The OP couldn't complain about how much damage the other guy did because they are a bit closer in effective DPS.

First: Nice trolling.

Still, this (the highlighted part) is where you're wrong as nobody can train a skill higher than lv5.
If a 5 year old player has trained Minmatar frigate to lv5 and you do the same, you are both (SP wice) eaqually good at flying that ship.
Granted, he will have have a lot of other skills that help him fit his ship better but he can still only train those skills to lv5, so eventually you will catch up. In the mean time, you might still be able to beat him as pvp in Eve has little to do with SP. It has all to do with knowledge. The Knowledge of how to pvp in Eve style.

This mean knowing how to use the tool (ship) you have at your disposal to hit your opponent at his weakest point. Knowing about fall off, transversal, kitting and a bunch of other stuff. Knowing when to fight and when to run and most importent - how to manually pilot your ship in relation to your apponent.

Think most players that come to the forums and complain about, not being able to pilot the ships personally (from the bridge) and want Eve to be a game where you do "dogfighting" type of pvp, has the same hole in their knowledge about what makes Eve pvp tick.

Sure thing, he might have better skills than you and have better modules on his ship but rest assure, that do NOT mean he knows how to fit his new ship or how to use it in a pvp situation.

Don't give up. Try and try again and everytime - learn from your experience.
Learning in a personal matter (not SP wice) is what makes a good Eve player.

Can't say I disagree with the OP. But then I think EvE's counterintuitive formula is what makes it somewhat successful as a PvP game.

The biggest fears in other PvP games are "Pay to Win", "Gear Gap", and large disparity in SP (XP) levels between new and old players, where new players will never catch the old players. EvE embraces all of these.

The reason I think the formula is successful is because, contrary to what people say, hardly anyone really wants a fair fight.

Except piloting skills are skillpoints.

The OP was saying that he had been "out skilled" in combat.

That is obviously wrong, since SP allows better ships for enough years to call them EVER.

I know about falloff, traversal, kiting, and a bunch of other stuff. It doesn't help against severe SP deficit, which was proven wrong over, and over, and over.

Screw fair. At least give me a chance.

I would have given you a 2/10 on the troll O-meter but it seems there are more gullible people than i thought. That bumps you up to maybe a 7/10 on the troll O-meter.